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 ===== - Setting up The Bat for Auto Book ===== ===== - Setting up The Bat for Auto Book =====
  
-The Bat is an email client that allows for running a program and passing email contents such as text body, subject, etc. as parameters to that program via a hotkey.+The Bat is an email client that allows for running a program and passing email contents such as text body, subject, etc. as parameters to that program via a hotkey (available for download on the [[https://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/|publisher's website]], although not free).
  
 Thus, Auto Book can access all relevant data associated with an email and process them using extraction schemes. Thus, Auto Book can access all relevant data associated with an email and process them using extraction schemes.
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 1) In case you don't only need information from the email text body, but also information contained in the email's headers such as subject, sender name, sender address, or date, Auto Book will receive and process all data by pressing a single hotkey, while normally, you would have to either concatenate the data beforehand or open and select the email source. 1) In case you don't only need information from the email text body, but also information contained in the email's headers such as subject, sender name, sender address, or date, Auto Book will receive and process all data by pressing a single hotkey, while normally, you would have to either concatenate the data beforehand or open and select the email source.
  
-2) Using The Bat allows you to associate the extraction scheme and database you want to use with a hotkey, i.e. you can set up different hotkeys to pre-select different extraction schemes/databases in the [[start#Data Preview]], e.g. depending on the client that sent the email.+2) Using The Bat allows you to associate the Extraction Scheme and Database you want to use with a hotkey, i.e. you can set up different hotkeys to pre-select different Extraction Schemes/Databases in the [[start#Data Preview]], for example depending on the client that sent the email.
  
 Here's how to set up The Bat for data transmission to Auto Book: Here's how to set up The Bat for data transmission to Auto Book:
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 C:\Auto Book\DataInput.exe "%TEXT //$// %OSUBJ //$// %ODATESHORT //$// %OFROMNAME //$// %OFROMADDR //$// Client1 //$// OverseasClients" C:\Auto Book\DataInput.exe "%TEXT //$// %OSUBJ //$// %ODATESHORT //$// %OFROMNAME //$// %OFROMADDR //$// Client1 //$// OverseasClients"
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 ⯈ To indicate only a specific Extraction Scheme, but not a Database, use the following line instead, replacing [extraction scheme] with the name of the extraction you want to use (the name shown in the **Extraction Schemes** panel of Auto Book's **Home** tab) and replacing "C:\Auto Book" with your Auto Book folder (the folder where AutoBook.exe is located).  //Do not include the square brackets.// ⯈ To indicate only a specific Extraction Scheme, but not a Database, use the following line instead, replacing [extraction scheme] with the name of the extraction you want to use (the name shown in the **Extraction Schemes** panel of Auto Book's **Home** tab) and replacing "C:\Auto Book" with your Auto Book folder (the folder where AutoBook.exe is located).  //Do not include the square brackets.//
setting_up_the_bat_for_auto_book.txt · Last modified: 2022/01/01 05:54 by autobook

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